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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf you had a megaphone and saw a small sidewalk rally for Trump in the Bay Area, what would you say?
This happened to my daughter and me this evening in the car while we were stopped at a redlight in front of a Safeway grocery in the East Bay of the Bay Area. We opened the window and shouted out things like "go Biden", "where's your mask?", "Trump's corrupt" (in response to the megaphoned Trumpist talking about Hunter etc). I also shouted out "you have no money to run commercials which is why you're in front of a Safeway".
It was actually in good fun, and no one (us or them) got too excited. I appreciate this is not exactly Algonquin Round Table discussion points!
We will likely go by the same place tomorrow and are bringing a megaphone with us tomorrow. Any thoughts for something pithy but pungent while we are waiting for the light to turn green?
My daughter was really irritated with the Trumpists, but I said this is quintessential democracy in action. They peaceably gathered, and we peaceably yelled back. Any ideas that can help cement home the importance of real discourse (knowing this is not really it) for an impressionable but very astute teenager would be welcome!
Ohiogal
(31,924 posts)DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)I suggested to my daughter we could do "Hey, hey, Donnie J. How many folks did you kill today?", borrowing from the Viet Nam chant against LBJ.
Ohiogal
(31,924 posts)marybourg
(12,598 posts)"Go home trumpanzees"
" Trump is an insane, traitorous fascist"
NRaleighLiberal
(60,008 posts)just a few choices
DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)We have about 20-30 seconds, so we'll come up with our list, in part based on the feedback we get here, and report back to you.
Hope they're not armed! My daughter wanted to drive around again and again, but I said let's do it once and then go home. We have much more important things to still do. For example, my daughter, who is fluent in Spanish, is phone banking to Florida to Latinx voters there, and I think that's far more important than yelling at bunch of privileged Trumpers. However, it's certainly worth 30 seconds, and this time we'll bring the megaphone!
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LakeArenal
(28,806 posts)doc03
(35,299 posts)DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)We're at a redlight, and it's called counter-protesting. Limited expenditure of time and resources on our way home, so ANY difference we make is a difference.
We couldn't care less about converting the Trumpers. We just want the others around to hear, and we don't want to let this go unchecked, albeit for 30 seconds.